Essential Medical Statistics (Essentials): 11
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“This is a technical book on a technical subject but presented in a delightful way. There are many books on statistics for doctors but there are few that are excellent and this is certainly one of them. Statistics is not an easy subject to teach or write about. The authors have succeeded in producing a book that is as good as it can get. For the keen student who does not want a book for mathematicians, this is an excellent first book on medical statistics.”
Essential Medical Statistics is a classic amongst medical statisticians. An introductory textbook, it presents statistics with a clarity and logic that demystifies the subject, while providing a comprehensive coverage of advanced as well as basic methods.
The second edition of Essential Medical Statistics has been comprehensively revised and updated to include modern statistical methods and modern approaches to statistical analysis, while retaining the approachable and non-mathematical style of the first edition. The book now includes full coverage of the most commonly used regression models, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression and Cox regression, as well as a chapter on general issues in regression modelling. In addition, new chapters introduce more advanced topics such as meta-analysis, likelihood, bootstrapping and robust standard errors, and analysis of clustered data.
Aimed at students of medical statistics, medical researchers, public health practitioners and practising clinicians using statistics in their daily work, the book is designed as both a teaching and a reference text. The format of the book is clear with highlighted formulae and worked examples, so that all concepts are presented in a simple, practical and easy-to-understand way. The second edition enhances the emphasis on choice of appropriate methods with new chapters on strategies for analysis and measures of association and impact.
Essential Medical Statistics is supported by a web site at www.blackwellpublishing.com/essentialmedstats. This useful online resource provides statistical datasets to download, as well as sample chapters and future updates.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 2nd edition (8 May 2003), Wiley-Blackwell |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 502 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0865428719 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0865428713 |
| Dimensions | 17.27 x 2.29 x 24.38 cm |
by Anon
Wonderfully clear book. I credit it with doing what multiple lectures and books have so far been unable to do – make me understand the principles and uses of stats! It makes the headscratching discipline so much easier to understand. No previous knowledge is assumed and so everything is explained but not in a patronising manner and with good examples. The chapters build on each other and harder chapters include reminders of basic concepts. Who knew a stats book could be so well written! Puts other books to shame.
by G. Koshy
This is both a good textbook and a good reference book. Being a medical professional and not a mathematician, I find this book eminently readable and the expressions are oriented toward the understanding and comprehension of anyone, not necessarily a statistician.
Overall, a good and useful book.
by YL
It starts from the basic concepts, explained with formula and examples, very easy for learning new statistical tests and revising the concepts.
by Amazon Customer
I bought this having studied all the applied statistics modules at the Open University (which I can highly recommend, as it happens) as I wanted a single place that would allow me to revise and reference the main things I had learned across many different courses and books. This was recommended by a university tutor as an answer to exactly that question. It is an *excellent* resource – there is a wealth of information packed in here, in a remarkably clear and concise style and logically organised. The chapters are often pleasingly short, maybe 10 pages or so, which means you can get through a sub-topic in one sitting without feeling drained. This also avoids the issue of picking it up later having forgotten the train of thought.
I would not buy this book expecting any mathematical statistics (if this term means nothing to you, then you don’t need to worry about mathematical statistics!). You will not get proofs or derivations. That is not, to my mind, a problem in any way. But if that is what you are after, you might be disappointed.
I also wouldn’t buy this book to teach me statistics from scratch, having had no previous exposure to statistics at all. That is because, while it does cover basics starting from e.g. calculating mean averages, and although it is clear, it is very concise and it is not a textbook with questions for you to try and answers for you to check. So long as you have had a basic introduction to statistics you should be fine to learn other new techniques from this book.
If you are buying this book because your job/course means you have to do statistics, but you hate it, or find it a frustrating mystery, or get very anxious at the thought of mathematics, I urge you to also check out Derek Rowntree’s ‘Statistics without Tears’. This is a book that focuses on big picture concepts and why we do statistics, so the sea of tests, p-values and degrees of freedom you feel pulling you under soon becomes an ocean of scientific methodology for you to enjoy exploring.
by Max
An doing a MSc in epidemiology and this book is just perfect to understand statistics. Every concept is well explained in details. I really recommend.
by Abi
I am useless at statistics but unfortunately in medicine it is a necessary evil. Essential Medical Statistics is by far the most user-friendly statistics book I have come across and covers everything you need to know. The book guides you through working out statistics in an easy to follow and logical way. Highly recommended!
by The Chimp Finder
I have been doing an MSc in Medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This book covers much of the material taught on their MSc but in a much clearer, more logical and less haphazard way. Well done Betty Kirkwood, you have achieved what other books and LSHTM lecturers could not. I only wish I had seen this book at the start of the course.
by Md Asifur Rahman Fahad
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